The women of Australian true crime: A criminal record from 'bad' to 'good'
THE CONVERSATION
BY RACHEL FRANKS, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE
UPDATED 33 MINUTES AGO
PHOTO The pyjama girl mystery, as featured in Famous Detective Stories no. 6
STATE LIBRARY OF NSW
Women have always been central to true crime stories: as victims, perpetrators, readers, and (increasingly) as tellers of these tales.
Indeed, these tales, often dismissed as sensationalised violence, offer important opportunities to reflect on crime and crime control.
Many true crime writers today including numerous women, working in a once male-dominated market have been biographers, coroners, detectives, historians, journalists, lawyers, and psychologists.
These backgrounds bring a style of storytelling that educates us about, not just merely entertains us with, crime. Importantly, many privilege complex and nuanced storytelling over simplistic stereotypes of women as just "bad" or just "good".
Read more at:
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-07/australian-women-in-true-crime/9125642
THE CONVERSATION
BY RACHEL FRANKS, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE
UPDATED 33 MINUTES AGO
PHOTO The pyjama girl mystery, as featured in Famous Detective Stories no. 6
STATE LIBRARY OF NSW
Women have always been central to true crime stories: as victims, perpetrators, readers, and (increasingly) as tellers of these tales.
Indeed, these tales, often dismissed as sensationalised violence, offer important opportunities to reflect on crime and crime control.
Many true crime writers today including numerous women, working in a once male-dominated market have been biographers, coroners, detectives, historians, journalists, lawyers, and psychologists.
These backgrounds bring a style of storytelling that educates us about, not just merely entertains us with, crime. Importantly, many privilege complex and nuanced storytelling over simplistic stereotypes of women as just "bad" or just "good".
Read more at:
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-07/australian-women-in-true-crime/9125642
